Critically Acclaimed #318 | The Best, Worst and Averagest Movies of 2024!

Oh my god this podcast wound up over three hours long. We are SO TIRED, and Witney may never be able to speak again. But it was worth it to give you CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED's picks for the Best, Worst, and even the Averagest Movies of 2024! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at [email protected], so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the year's final new releases, including the Bob Dylan biopic A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, the Robbie Williams biopic BETTER MAN, Barry Jenkins's CG-animated Disney prequel MUFASA: THE LION KING, the Barry Jenkins-scripted/Rachel Morrison directed women's boxing biopic THE FIRE INSIDE, the epic architecture drama THE BRUTALIST, Robert Eggers' vampire remake NOSFERATU, the sexually awakening Nicole Kidman drama BABYGIRL, the Christian apocalyptic drama HOMESTEAD!A Complete Unknown - 4:54Better Man - 34:45Mufasa: The Lion King - 45:00The Fire Inside - 1:08:15The Brutalist - 1:13:55Nosferatu - 1:33:00Babygirl - 1:18:18Homestead - 1:58:12Review Round-Up - 2:11:15Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at [email protected], so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Because YOU demanded it, Bibbs and Witney present their picks for THE BEST MOVIES THAT BEGIN WITH THE LETTER K!It's the latest entry in our ongoing alphabet series, with two competing top ten lists dedicated to any film, in any genre, from any era, from anywhere in the world, that just happens to begin with the same letter!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at [email protected], so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bibbs and Witney review THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM, KRAVEN THE HUNTER, the Netflix thriller CARRY-ON, the Richard Curtis animated holiday movie THAT CHRISTMAS, the Amy Adams dog transformation drama NIGHTBITCH, the hard-hitting period piece NICKEL BOYS, the post-apocalyptic music THE END and, because Witney wanted to circle back to it, SEPTEMBER 5!The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim - 5:35 Kraven the Hunter - 37:30 Carry-On - 1:00:10 That Christmas - 1:09:55 Nightbitch - 1:18:40 Nickey Boys - 1:30:07 The End - 1:39:20 September 5 - 1:50:52 Review Round-Up - 2:01:47Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at [email protected], so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

When he wasn't going on excellent adventures and bogus journeys, years before he became a celebrated documentarian, Alex Winter was pushing the boundaries of comedy with THE IDIOT BOX!On an all-new episode of CANCELED TOO SOON, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold take their own time machine back to the early 1990s, when MTV was on the cutting edge and Alex Winter died on camera almost every week! Is THE IDIOT BOX a forgotten sketch comedy classic? How many parts of it have aged very, very badly? Did you know future Oscar-nominee John Hawkes was in this series?And was it... CANCELED TOO SOON?Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at [email protected], so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Because YOU wrote in, Bibbs and Witney answer your questions, recommend tons of movies, and learn all about Sum 41!This time on WE'VE GOT MAIL, Bibbs and Witney talk about the best films set in Oregon! Their favorite STAR TREK uniforms! MOANA 2's protagonist syndrome! And why you should never walk out of a movie and review it anyway!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at [email protected], so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Our podcast ALL OUR YESTERDAYS is usually a Patreon-exclusive, but we're sharing this very special episode with everyone! Witney Seibold and William Bibbiani are reviewing every episode of STAR TREK ever produced, in order, and in their 238th episode they're finally reached the pilot episode of STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE!In this epic look back at the origin of one of the most celebrated and important sci-fi shows ever made, Witney and Bibbs hit you up with tons of history and extremely opinionated opinions about why DS9 is legendary!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get to listen to every other episode of ALL OUR YESTERDAYS, and to keep up with Witney and Bibbs as they continue to review every episode of DEEP SPACE NINE!Email us at [email protected], so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bibbs and Witney review the blockbuster Disney sequel MOANA 2, Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of William S. Burroughs' QUEER, the secretly-film Iranian political thriller THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, and the historical journalism drama SEPTEMBER 5!Moana 2 - 4:24 Queer - 43:08 The Seed of the Sacred Fig - 1:02:25 September 5 - 1:10:55 Review Round-Up - 1:21:35 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

From the creator of PERRY MASON and the director of CAT PEOPLE and NIGHT OF THE DEMON! If that doesn't grab your attention, what possibly could...?This week on CANCELED TOO SOON, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold unearth a failed pilot for COOL AND LAM, a comedy private detective series based on books by Erle Stanley Gardner and directed by the legendary Jacques Tourneur!Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at [email protected], so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We've got the musical WICKED, the Ridley Scott sequel GLADIATOR II, the $250 million Christmas action comedy RED ONE, the horny Netflix holiday rom-com HOT FROSTY, the August Wilson adaptation THE PIANO LESSON, the apocalyptic animated Latvian animal movie FLOW, and the music documentary THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ALLEE WILLIS.Wicked - 5:56Gladiator II - 44:33Red One - 1:04:17Hot Frosty - 1:14:00The Piano Lesson - 1:24:03Flow - 1:34:25The World According to Allee Willis - 1:43:34Review Round-Up - 1:48:20Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork to get exclusive podcasts and exciting rewards, like exclusive series, commentary tracks, and much more!Email us at [email protected], so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy